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The Bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History January/February

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The Bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History

There’s never a good
time to do anything,
so the best time is
always now: Plan-
ning for a 2d century.

For Black History
Month, a celebra-
tion of the Harlem
Renaissance,
Chicago style.

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Work in progress on
“Africa,” “Life Over
Time,” and “Ruate-
pupuke: A Maori
Meeting House.”

A collection of Chi-
nese and Vietnamese
art objects includes
rare Qing cinnabar
lacquerware.

LONG LIFE,
MUCH WEALTH

A traditional Chinese New Year celebration
includes posting wood-block prints about
the house to bring the blessings of the gods
of longevity, prosperity, fecundity, and high
marks in school.

Story, Page 9

NEWEST, EARLIEST DINOSAURS

aul Sereno, the University of Chica-

go/Field Museum dinosaur hunter,

has dug up a virtually complete skele-

ton of the most
primitive dinosaur ever
discovered, Announce-
ment of the finding, and of the name of the
beast, was scheduled for January 5 at a news
conference organized by the
National Geographic Society in
Washington. The skeleton will
go on display in the Field Museum start-
ing January 8.

The fossil skeleton, of an adult flesh-eating
animal about one meter (three feet) long, was
found in Argentina in October 1991. Sereno
said the creature is about 230 million years old.
While it is a true dinosaur, he said, it represents
a stage of evolution “close to the dinosaur
ancestor,” the non-dinosaur from which the
dinosaurs branched off as a separate lineage.

“We're trying to figure out what happened
when the dinosaurs emerged and took over,”
Sereno said. During the 180 million years
between the branching event and the extinction
of the dinosaurs, they moved into and came to
dominate most terrestrial ecosystems.

The announcement of the finding comes
hard on the heels of Sereno’s description, in the
November 13 issue of Science, of the morphol-
ogy and behavior of Herrerasaurus, another
very ancient dinosaur from Argentina that was
probably the ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex.

Although Herrerasaurus was first identi-
fied several decades ago, it was known only
from a few leg and pelvis bones. But in 1988,
Sereno and his party found the remains of five
of them, including one nearly complete skele-
ton which was prepared and assembled at the
Field Museum. They were three to six meters
long, weighed up to 200 kg (about 450
pounds), and like T. rex, which was about twice
as big, they had powerful hind legs, short arms,
and claws, jaws, and teeth clearly adapted to
meat-eating. T. rex appeared about 160 million
years after Herrerasaurus.

Sereno is assistant professor of organismal
biology and anatomy at the University of
Chicago and research associate in fossil reptiles
at the Field Museum.

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Herrerasaurus, one of the earliest carnivorous
dinosaurs. Below left, preparator Joe Searcy
helps piece the beast together.

POISON BIRDS IN PARADISE

By Jessica Clark

itchcockian, it wasn’t. But Universi-

ty of Chicago graduate student Jack

Dumbacher did have a strange expe-

rience while disentangling pitohui
birds from nets during a research foray in New
Guinea, and it set him to wondering.

A curious memory of his skin growing
numb after touching the pitohuis led Dumbach-
er to posit that the creatures referred to as “rub-
bish birds” by New Guineans might secrete
some sort of defensive poison. During his
return to the area with Bruce Beehler of the
National Museum of Natural History, whom
Dumbacher had been helping with his study of
birds of paradise, he collected several speci-
mens with which to test his hypothesis.

At first, colleagues were skeptical; no poi-
sonous bird had ever been discovered, and
ornithologists had been frequenting New
Guinea for years to study the exotic fauna.

However, when John Daly, chemist at the
National Institutes of Health, agreed to analyze
tissues from several species of pitohuis, Dum-
bacher was proven correct. The skin and feath-
ers of the brilliant orange and black birds con-
tain a neurotoxin, homobatrachotoxin, which is
potent enough to drive off predators. The nerve
agent is the same as that secreted by the poison
dart frogs of South America; however, because
of the difference in location and phylum, the
two animals are believed to have developed this
specialized defense mechanism independently .

The frogs may acquire their poison from
something in the local environment; they do not
produce it while in captivity. The poison is
secreted from storage sites in the skin of the
frogs, who have developed an immunity to it.
So far, it is unclear whether the pitohuis
acquire, or secrete, their poison, and how they
can tolerate its presence in their skin and mus-
cles. Because different species of the bird, liv-
ing in different areas, seem to produce varying
amounts of the chemical, however, Dumbacher
has speculated that the poison comes from
some local source.

Poisonous animals like the dart frog and

the monarch butterfly often warn predators
away with bright colors and unpleasant smells.
These warning signals are sometimes mimicked
by neighboring animals in an attempt to scare
away predators who would also eat them. Dum-
bacher is using Field Museum’s bird collections
to look for signs of mimicry in other members
of the same genus living in close proximity to
the pitohuis. Scott Lanyon, chairman of the
zoology department, head of the division of
birds, and Pritzker Curator of Systematic Biolo-
gy, is a member of Dumbacher’s Ph.D. com-
mittee, and has helped to direct his research.

“In general, this is an important discov-
ery,” said Lanyon. “You don’t get something
published in Science unless it’s important.”
Dumbacher’s article on the pitohuis was
featured on the cover of the October 30
issue of the prestigious scientific journal.

The discovery of the pitohui’s poi-
sonous properties, according to Lanyon, is
important to evolutionary biologists
because it is unprecedented, and has impli-
cations for study of other birds in the
region. The neurotoxin secreted by the
birds is also important for biomedical
research; it is used to dilate sodium chan-
nels in nerves, and so allows researchers to
observe sodium impulses which would oth-
erwise remain almost imperceptible.
Another aspect of Dumbacher’s project is
to attempt to isolate the source of the homoba-
trachotoxin, thereby reducing the number of
dart frogs that would have to be sacrificed for
research purposes. “I think the collection takes
a toll on that species,” said Dumbacher. ”I hope
we will be able to find a simpler source.”

Dumbacher is excited to have discovered
the unique properties of the pitohui, despite the
fact that he initially travelled to New Guinea to
study birds of paradise. ’We all sort of fall into
long term projects,” said the Ph.D. candidate,
who plans to focus his dissertation on the birds.
“T feel really fortunate — this allows me to ask
a lot of interesting evolutionary questions. It
also gives me a chance to continue to go back
to New Guinea, an area I’ve been interested in
for a long time.”

Jack Dumbacher/UCAV

John Weinstein / GN86538.22

January/February 1993

APPROACHING OUR CENTENNIAL

By Willard L. Boyd
President, Field Museum

hicago’s city flag has four stars.

Two represent city catastrophes,

and two represent city triumphs.

The catastrophes were the Fort
Dearborn massacre and the Chicago fire. The
triumphs were the World Columbian Exposi-
tion of 1893 and the Century of Progress Fair
of 1933.

This year there will be a number of city-
wide celebrations of the centennial of the
Columbian Exposition. Foremost among them
will be that of the Field Museum which ts the
direct legacy of that Exposition. This Museum
was the vision of the chief ethnologist of the
Exposition, and our collections began with the
objects brought to Chicago for display there.

The halo of nostalgia surrounding the
Columbian Exposition eclipses the fact that
1893 was a year of economic depression. Nev-
ertheless, our founders organized the
Columbian Museum in August of 1893, and the
following June we formally opened in the sur-
viving Palace of Fine Arts, now the site of the
Museum of Science and Industry.

Given the courage of our founders we
should not be disheartened by the economic
uncertainties of 1993. In every year since A
Tale of Two Cities was published, people have
lamented that “these are the best of times, these
are the worst of times.” The greatest legacy our
founders have given us is the conviction that

John Weinstein / GN86542.31

there is no good time to do anything, so you
might as well do it now.

Accordingly, the Field Museum will be
celebrating its Centennial looking to the future.
We are engaged in a strategic planning process
intended to assure a Museum as vigorous and
significant in its second century as it has been
during its first. People say we cannot afford
new ideas. In fact, we cannot afford to be with-
out new ideas if our Museum is to be a center
of learning in the 21st Century.

From the beginning we have been a muse-
um dedicated to learning about the evolution of
the world’s diverse environments and cultures.
In 1893 Chicagoans were awed by the differ-
ences in the world’s environments and cultures.
Today we Chicagoans are actively living day-
to-day with diverse environments and diverse
cultures in our own city and in our increasingly
interdependent world. We are trying to under-
stand that diversity. For example, for whom
was the Fort Dearborn massacre a catastrophe?
Native Americans today are reminding us that
there are at least two interpretations of every
historical event.

The 1893 and 1933 fairs exhibited “exotic”
people. Today the compatriots of the people
who were put on display are our friends and
neighbors in Chicago and our world trading
partners. The Museum will host an exhibit-per-
formance on January 16 and 17 [see page 7]
which reminds us of how Chicagoans looked at
people who were different in 1893 and 1933,
and how in 1993 we must look at one another

from each other’s point-of-view, as well as our
own.

The Museum must be a leader in a chang-
ing world. We have reached our Centennial,
where do we reach next? That is the purpose of
our current strategic planning program. At the
outset we have restated our commitment as an
educational institution to serve the public. Our
original Articles of Incorporation, dated
September 16, 1893, briefly stated our mission:
“The object for which [the Museum] is formed
is for the accumulation and dissemination of
knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition
of objects illustrating Art, Archaeology, Sci-
ence and History.”

Our new 1992 mission statement com-
mences with a preamble entitled, “Serving the
Public as Educator” and provides:

The Field Museum is an educational institution
concerned with the diversity and relationships
in nature and among cultures. It provides col-
lection-based research and learning for greater
public understanding and appreciation of the
world in which we live. Its collections, public
learning programs, and research are insepara-
bly linked to serve a diverse public of varied
ages, background and knowledge.

During 1993 we will report to you in this space
on how we plan to accept the challenges of our
second century.

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The Women’s Board gala, the Treasures Ball, was held November 6 in cel-
ebration of the opening of “Messages from the Wilderness.” Stanley Field
Hall glittered spectacularly even before the arrival of the guests, including
Museum trustee Bill Kurtis and Donna La Pietra, above, Pictured in front
of the Serengeti mural in the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Wildlife Research
Station are President Boyd; Heather Bilandic (center), president of the
Women’s Board; and Maureen Smith, Ball Chairman.

In the Field

January/February 1993
Vol, 64, No.1

Editor:
Ron Dorfman

Art Director:
Shi Yung

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Jessica Clark

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FIVE NEW MAMMAL SPECIES

Larry HEANEY, associate curator of mammals,
and STEVEN Goopma\, field biologist in birds
and mammals, recently completed analysis of
their study of mammals of a small and previ-
ously undocumented island in the Philippines.
Their results were startling, revealing five new,
undescribed species of mammals, including a
fruit bat, a striped gopher-like animal, two for-
est mice, and a large rat.

“This is extraordinary,” said Heaney, “for
sO many new species to be found by a single
expedition, especially from a small island. It
has probably been 50 years since any given
field season produced this many new mammals
anywhere on earth.” The information establish-
es the island, called Sibuyan, as a unique center
of mammalian diversity in Southeast Asia.

Heaney is currently serving as a consultant
to the Philippine government on the redevelop-
ment of the national park system, which had
deteriorated badly during the Marcos adminis-
trations. This new information will be used in
his assessment of biodiversity and may result in
the forests of the island being protected from
the intensive logging now underway.

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Rosert L. WELSCH, visiting associate curator of
anthropology, JoHN TERRELL, curator of Ocean-
ic archaeology and ethnology, and Joun NADOL-
SkI, graduate student at Northwestern Universi-
ty, were awarded the Morton H. Fried Prize for
1992 by the American Anthropological Associ-
ation. The $2,000 prize is presented each year
for the best paper published in the American
Anthropologist.

The paper by Welsch, Terrell, and Nadols-
ki details some of the results of their continuing
study of the world-famous ethnographic collec-
tions at the Field Museum that were assembled
between 1909 and 1913 on the North Coast of
New Guinea by the renowned curator A.B.
Lewis. The paper is of particular significance
within the broad field of anthropology as it dis-
cusses the relationship (or, rather, lack of rela-
tionship) between material culture and lan-
guage.

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Bruce PATTERSON, curator of mammals, has
been appointed to the editorial board of a new
fast-track journal, Biodiversity Letters, whose
first issue will appear later this year. The board
includes conservationists, ecologists, and pale-
ontologists, and will provide a forum for papers
that examine and emphasize the importance of
historical and phylogenetic processes in deter-
mining modern diversity patterns.

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In late October, Scorr LipGarp, associate cura-
tor of fossil invertebrates, was elected president
of the Association of North American Paleon-
tological Societies. In this capacity, he will
help to oversee planning of the next North
American Paleontological Convention, sched-
uled for 1996 at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington.

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CHARLES STANISH has been promoted to associ-
ate curator in the department of anthropology.
Stanish joined the Field Museum in 1987 as
assistant curator of Middle and South American
archaeology and ethnology. He has published
two monographs in Fieldiana, along with
numerous articles in American Anthropologist,
and has edited volumes on Andean prehistory.
His major work, Andean Political Economy:
An Archeological Approach, was published in
1992 by the University of Texas Press, and is
quickly becoming a landmark in understanding
how politics and economics interacted in
Andean civilization. Recently, Stanish has
been working in the Lake Titicaca Basin of
Peru under the sponsorship of the National Sci-
ence Foundation, exploring the evolution of the
Lupaqua Kingdom from prehistoric times up
until the time of the Inca, and contact with the
first Spanish explorers.

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RANDALL Evans joined the Botany Department
on November 9 to fill the position of postdoc-
toral researcher on the Flora Mesoamericana
project, funded by a National Science Founda-
tion grant to the Missouri Botanical Garden.

€

Jesstz THYMES, coordinator of the outreach pro-
gram in the Department of Education, recently
received the Award of Honor from the Accoun-
ters Community Center for her “dedication and
commitment to the involvement of community
families in the rich cultural heritage of the City
of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural Histo-
ry.” As she presented the award, the executive
director of the Center noted Thymes’s ability to
teach group leaders about the Museum’s
resources and her contribution to young chil-
dren’s learning in the Accounters After School
Program.

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In a letter to colleagues dated “October 11 or
thereabouts,” Curator Emeritus Puitie HEr-
SHKOVITZ reported on the progress of his ongo-
ing inventories in Caparad, a national park in
Brazil. He wrote:

“We have collected about 5 species of

The division of amphibians and reptiles recently catalogued its 250,000th
specimen. The snake, Stoliczkaia borneensis, from Sabah on the island of
Borneo, is so rare that it doesn’t have a common name. There are probably
fewer than six specimens of this species held in museum collections world-
wide; very little is known about its biology. The snake was collected in
1991 by Rob Stuebing, a research associate, in undisturbed submontane
forest. Above, volunteers Mike Blanford and Beth Burke catalogue the
specimen under the watchful eye of Curator Emeritus Hymen Marx. Blan-
ford and Burke are currently studying biology at Southern Illinois Universi-
ty in Carbondale.

Akodon [field mouse], at least two new. Three
kinds of oxymycterines [long-snouted, insectiv-
orous mice] — one familiar-looking and anoth-
er “maybe” kind, and a distinct genus ...a
Cavia [guinea pig] was taken at the top of the
tract—maybe 2700-2800m [8850-9200 ft. ele-
vation] and a medium size caviomorph I cannot
place but my memory is short here . . . Capara6
is notorious for its torrential rains, howling
winds, and everything else that is nice weather-
wise.”

Hershkovitz celebrated his 83rd birthday in
the field.

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MARGARET THAYER, research associate in
insects, has been named president-elect of the
Coleopterists Society, an international associa-
tion to promote the study of beetles. She will be
president of the Society for two years begin-
ning in December 1994. AL NewrTon, associate
curator of insects, was elected to a two-year
term as a Councillor of the Society.

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The BarBara E. AND RocErR O. Brown Primate
Research Facility was dedicated November 27.
A plaque placed in the hall reads in part:

“Since 1973, Barbara and Roger Brown
have been key participants and supporters of
the Museum’s research on primates and other
mammals, Through financial support and tech-
nical assistance during field work and laborato-
ry analyses, the Browns have contributed to the
scope and success of the encyclopedic Living
New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini) project by
Philip Hershkovitz, curator emeritus at Field
Museum. During the course of this work, Her-
shkovitz has described 21 new species and sub-
species of monkeys, many from our collections,
and redefined 150 others. This work has forev-
er changed assessments of diversity and rela-
tionships in this critical group.”

Barbara Brown is at right in the photo, sur-
rounded by family members at the dedication.

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Patrick Mea Group, Ine. of achdage donated 30 ‘billboards i in ol ;

“city neighborhoods to help the Museum promote the “Backyard Mon-
sters” exhibit. Lea. Burnett U, SA, worked on the production of thé out-
- door ads. Pictured from. left are joel Byron,

Media; Madelyn: Thompson;¢ diréctor of c rf
“tions, Field Museum; Robert Wild; an atto. mney with Saitlin, Patzik &
Frank Ltd. and-a member-of the. Outreach Council, who put Patrick
Media and the Museum together; Sherry DeVries, director of public

affairs, Field Museum; and Barry Freedman, public affairs director of
Patrick Media.

The Museum invited
some longtime
friends to the inaugu-
ral luncheon of the
Centennial Club in
the new Daniel F. and
Ada L. Rice Wildlife
Research Station.
Some 145 of the
2,170 people who
have been members
of the Museum 30
years or more attend-
ed the event. Fore-
ground are Elizabeth
Hoffman (left) and
Peggy Carr; standing
are Willard E. White,
vice president for
development and
external affairs, Susan
VandenBosch, direc-
tor of individual giv-
ing, and Dorothy
Roder, director of
tours and a longtime
former membership
director.

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At the unveiling of a bronze bust of John James
Audubon in the Field Museum Library, Joel
Oppenheimer (right), president of Douglas Keny-
on, Inc., is joined by Brooks and Hope
McCormick. The Kenyon gallery commissioned
the work from sculptors Jeffrey Hanson Varilla
and Anna Koh Varilla, and the McCormicks
donated the first of the eight copies of the work to
the Library.

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David
Brower,
chairman
of Earth
Island Insti-
tute, spoke
during the
opening fes-
tivities for Se | | al =
“Messages from the : Gk er pee
Wilderness” :
November and auto-

graphed copies of his

books.

African drums and Santa Claus were among the attractions at the
Field Museum Holiday Tea sponsored by the Women’s Board.

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marketing manager of Patrick
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Calvin Gray (left) explains a model of the new Africa exhibit to
members of the Outreach Council during a sneak preview in
November.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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LOCKED IN STONE

ntriguing fossils from a 52-million-

year-old lake community in Wyoming

are on view through March 7 in

“Locked in Stone: The Prehistoric

Creatures of Fossil Lake.” The more
than 100 fossils are a select representation of
specimens collected over the past fifteen years
by Lance Grande, associate curator of fossil
fishes in the Department of Geology.

The fossils were extracted from Fossil
Lake, which is part of the Green River Forma-
tion that covers parts of Wyoming, Colorado,
and Utah. Located in southwestern Wyoming,
Fossil Lake has proved to be one of the rich-
est fossil areas in the world — an entire lake
community fossilized in limestone and frozen
in a time when that part of the country had a
tropical climate. Grande has assembled for the
Field Museum the world’s finest collection of
Green River fossils.

The work at Fossil Lake is unusual
because scientists are able to look at an entire
lake community rather than having to piece
together scattered objects. Insects, shrimps,
snails, plants, fishes, amphibians, turtles,
birds, 13- foot-long crocodiles, and other fos-
sils can all be found in a narrow horizon of
limestone — a compressed picture of an
entire lake system representing a contempora-
neous community of organisms from the
Early Eocene time period.

NEW DINOSAURS _
ARE REALLYOLD

tarting January 8, Field Museum will display the fossil

skeleton of a 230-million-year-old dinosaur, believed to

be among the first dinosaurs that ever lived. It was discoy-
ered in Argentina in 1991 by Paul Sereno, the University of
Chicago and Field Museum paleontologist who also discovered
nearly-complete remains of Herrerasaurus, shown above, in the
same area in 1988.

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FORT MOSE:
BLACK FORTRESS OF FREEDOM

ore than 250 years ago, African-

born slaves risked their lives to

escape English plantations in Car-

olina and find freedom among the
Spanish living at St. Augustine, Florida. Bat-
tling slavecatchers and dangerous swamps, they
helped establish the first American under-
ground railroad more than a century before the
Civil War.

“Fort Mose: Colonial America’s Black
Fortress of Freedom,” on exhibit through
February 14, tells the story of those brave
escapees, and the discovery of the first legally
sanctioned free African-American town in the
present-day United States.

Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose,
(“Fort Mose,” pronounced “moh-say”) was
established in 1738 by the Spanish governor of
Florida to house escaped British slaves who
were freed by the Spanish in return for service
to the King and conversion to Catholicism.

An important site in African-American his-
tory, Fort Mose has yielded records and arti-

John Weinstein

facts which suggest that African-Americans
played important roles in the rivalry between
England and Spain in the Colonial Southeast,
defending St. Augustine against British attacks
in 1740, and participating in a Spanish coun-
teroffensive two years later.

“Fort Mose” also explores the everyday
life of the town’s inhabitants. A team of spe-
cialists, headed by Dr. Kathleen Deagan of the
Florida Museum of Natural History, has
unearthed both archaeological and historical
details: census data are now available, and
excavations have revealed items such as gun-
flints, thimbles, bone buttons, glass bottles, and
even a hand-made St. Christopher medal.

This exhibit was organized by the Florida
Museum of Natural History of the University of
Florida, Gainesville. Archaeologists at the
museum are still conducting excavations of this
monument to the courageous African-Ameri-
cans who risked, and often lost, their lives in
the long struggle to achieve freedom.

ield Museum’s latest additions to its
animal kingdom exhibits are “Mes-
sages from the Wilderness” and the
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Wildlife
Research Station. “Messages” combines the
Museum’s classic animal dioramas with inter-
active, multi-media, and scenic elements to
create a journey through the national parks and
nature reserves of North and South America.
The 18 simulated environments help visitors
explore the complex relationships among
plants, animals, and habitats that provide so
much of the diversity and wonder in nature.
The Rice Wildlife Research Station, set
amid the vistas and wildlife of the Serengeti
Plain, is a study center with books and other
resources available to individuals who wish to

pursue further the subjects explored in the
exhibits.

January/February 1993

Grevy’s zebra,
above, and, at left,
the saiga with its
bulging nose and
the delicate four-
horned antelope,
are among the
scores of spectacu-
lar specimens in
“Messages from the
Wilderness” and the
Rice Wildlife
Research Station.

John Weinstein

Walker Art Center

JANUARY/FEBRUARY EVENTS

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TAT vena

Camera Club

The regular monthly meeting will feature
“Alaska: Coastal Waters, Interior Vistas,” a
slide presentation by Bill Christensen and
Elizabeth Scigala. All are
welcome;
the meet-
ing will be
in Lecture
Hall 2, J
starting at 7:30 p.m. Park
in the west lot and enter
through the west door.

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Windy City Grotto

The January meeting of the Windy City
Grotto of the National Speleological Soci-
ety will begin at 7:30 p.m., and is open to
everyone interested in caving. Please use
the Museum’s west entrance.

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Family Overnight

Bring the kids (grades 1-6) and sleep over
at the Field Museum. Natural science
workshops, flashlight tours, entertainment,
an evening snack, and Continental
breakfast Sunday morning. $35 per adult,
$30 per child. Pre-registration required;
call (312) 322-8854.

21455

Library Friends

Field Museum paleontologist Dr. Olivier
Rieppel will give a presentation on “The
Meaning of Fossils” for the Friends of Field
Museum Library. Using works from the
Museum library’s Mary W. Runnells Rare
Book Room to illustrate his talk, Dr. Riep-
pel will address the question, “How did
fossils become evidence of evolution?”
Reception at 5:30 p.m.; the program will
begin at 6 p.m. Call (312) 322-8874.

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Mask Parade

Children ages 3 and 4 accompanied by an
adult will listen to stories that explain why
a possum has a tail like a snake and a
buzzard has a bald head. After seeing the
animals in our exhibits and watching a dra-
matic performance, participants will make
a mask to take home. 10-11 a.m. $14 ($12
members) for one adult and one child. Call
(312) 322-8854 for more information.

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Exhibit Closing

This will be the last day to see “Guaman
Poma de Ayala: The Colonial Art of an
Andean Author,” on display in Webber
Gallery. The exhibition shows drawings
and documents that depict the Spanish
conquest from an Inca perspective.

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Camera Club

This month's meeting will feature a slide
competition and judging: “Water in any
form”, as well as a mini-program, “Design
in Nature.” Everyone is welcome; please
park in the west lot and enter by the west
door. 7:30 p.m.

2/10 uns

Windy City Grotto

The Speleological Society’s meeting will
begin at 7:30 p.m. , and is open to every-
one interested in caving. Please use the
Museum’s west entrance.

2/ 1 3 Saturday

Kente Cloth

The spectacular kente cloth of the Ashanti
people of West Africa was once only woven
for royalty. Several narrow stripes of woven
fabric were sewn together to produce the
cloth. In a class which will continue on
February 27, artist Tina Fung Holder will
demonstrate how the original cloth was
made. Partipants will weave a sample for
themselves on a traditional loom. $55 ($48
members). 10:00 a.m.-3 p.m. Call (312)
322-8854 for more information.

DVS tats

Family Overnight

See listing for January 16.

2/ T 0 Thursday

Collectors

The Collections Committee hosts Dr. Yuri
Berezkin, visiting scholar from the Institute
of Archaeology of St. Petersburg, Russia. In
a slide lecture entitled “Peoples and Prehis-
toric Cultures of Central Asia,” Dr.
Berezkin will discuss the contemporary
peoples of the former Turkmen S.S.R. and
his archaeological excavations in the
region. Open to Museum Members.
Refreshments at 5:30 p.m.; lecture at 6
p.m. in Montgomery Ward Hall. Space is
limited; for reservations, call 322-8874.

1/16 -17 sarin» sons

Undiscovered Aborigines

“Two Undiscovered Aborigines Visit Chicago.” A multilingual,
interactive performance by Guillermo Gomez Pefia and Coco
Fusco. Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Randolph Street Gallery, and
Field Museum present this performance as part of the “Year of the
White Bear” project. The performance looks at how the “discovery
of America” has been represented throughout recent history.

CELEBRATING DIVERSITY

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE:
CHICAGO 1920s—1930s

cians, and performers met in Harlem, Chicago, and other urban centers to share their dreams

T he 1920s and *30s were an important period in African-American history. Writers, musi-

and visions. This was an era that produced many great writers and artists including Langston
Hughes, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. Blacks from the Caribbean and the southern United
States combined their diverse cultures in urban centers and the synergy created a cultual renaissance.
As part of Field Museum’s Celebrating Diversity 1993, we observe Black History Month by
remembering these contributions to the performing, visual, and literary arts. Programs include:

The Life and Times of Langston Hughes
Journey back in time to the days of the Cotton
Club in New York for this performance. Sia
Dance Company teaches us about one of the
greatest American poets as they demonstrate
the popular dances of the period: the &
cakewalk, the blackbottom, and the
Charleston. Saturday, February 6 at y
noon; and Wednesday,
February 24 at 10:30
and 11:45 a.m. Group
reservations are
required for the Feb.
24 performances as
seating is limited.

Go Tell It on the Mountain
An outstanding cast is fea-

tured in the film version of James Baldwin’s
autobiographical novel about a young boy
growing up in 1930s Harlem. First Prize at the
American Film Festival. Saturday, February 6
at 1 and 2:30 p.m..

The Chocolate Chip Theater Company
Experience the prose and poetry of the Harlem
Renaissance in dramatic readings by actors

; from the Chocolate Chip Theater Company.

Saturday, February 6 at 1, 1:30, 2, and 2:30
p.m.; Wednesday, February 17 at 10:30, 11,
11:30, and noon; Wednesday, February 24 at
10:30, 11, 11:30, and noon.

The Christoper Smith Dance Company

This marvelous dance company will delight
you with the music of Billie Holiday, Duke
Ellington, and others as they present Jt Hap-
pened in Harlem. Performance also geared for
the hearing impaired. Group reservations are
required, as seating is limited. Wednesday,
February 10 at 10:30 and 11:45 a.m.

The Whitney Young Concert Choir

This talented choir from Whitney Young High
School will perform their “Tribute to Duke
Ellington.” So take the A train, and don’t miss
it! Group reservations are required as seating is
limited. Wednesday, February 17 at 10:30 and
11:45 a.m.

For more information about these programs,
call (312) 922-9410, ext. 351.

WINTER OVERNIGHTS

egister for one of the Museum’s

Overnights, grab your sleeping bags

and kids, and get ready to experience

Field Museum in a unique way.
Family Overnights are designed for parents (or
grandparents or aunts and/or uncles) and chil-
dren grades 1-6.

Our sleeping areas include the American
Indian halls — you may choose to bed down
next to a totem pole from the Northwest Coast
or near the Pawnee Earth Lodge. Families
attend two natural science workshops on topics
such as “Insects” (with Phil Parrillo from the
Division of Insects), “The Pawnee Earth
Lodge” (with Mary Ann Bloom from the Edu-
cation Department), or “Rock and Mineral
Match” (with Peter Laraba, also an Education
Department staff member).

After an evening snack, families come
together in Simpson Theatre for a performance
featuring a different storyteller each night. Dur-
ing free time after the performance, activities
include a self-guided flashlight tour of Ancient
Egypt, a scavenger hunt, or your own explo-
rations in Museum exhibits. Bedtime is 2 a.m.
or earlier. We will wake you at 7 a.m. for a
Continental breakfast before you head home.
Join in the fun as thousands of other
Chicagoans have! The cost is $35 for adults
and $30 for children. Winter Family
Overnights are scheduled for Saturdays Jan-
uary 16, February 13, and March 20.

ducators will have their own Overnight on Friday, January 22.
During this specially designed program, teachers, scout leaders,
after-school program instructors, administrators, and other edu-
cators will have the opportunity to learn more about natural sci-
ence and cultural topics and discover the many resources Field Museum
has for school field trips and in-class materials. Participants will attend
two workshops and an activity fair of hands-on experiences to duplicate
in the classroom. A substantial evening snack and Continental breakfast
is included as well as plenty of time to see Field Museum’s newest exhib-
it, “Messages from the Wilderness,” and to mingle with fellow educators.
Two options are available — stay the entire night for $40 or pay $30 for
Friday evening’s activities.
For all Overnights, preregistration is required and space is limited.
Call (312) 322-8854 for more information.

For a complete listing of
Field Museum’s
educational programs,

call (312) 322-8854
to request the January-March
“Field Guide”

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Invitation to Members’ Night

Priority invitations to special exhibits
Free subscription to In the Field
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Reduced subscription prices on selected
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Opportunity to receive the Museum’s
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10% discount at all Museum stores
Use of our 250,000-volume

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Discount on classes, field trips, and seminars
for adults and children

Members-only tour program
Opportunity to attend the annual
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wholesaler

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VISITOR PROGRAMS

Field Museum Wel-
comes Volunteers for
“Ruatepupuke:

A Maori Meeting
House.” Weekday
and weekend facilita-
tors are needed to

present group and
public programs in
this new exhibit. Vol-
unteer training
begins in mid-Jan-
uary. A $10 fee is
required. Scholar-
ships are available.

Please call the Coor-
dinator of Museum
Volunteers at (312)
922-9410, ext. 360,
to participate.

Saturday, January 2

11am—2pm Family Activity:
“Kites” Join Cesar Izquierdo to
make a simple kite to take
home.

12—2pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs
activity.

1pm World Music presents The
Ars Subtilior performing music
of the Middle Ages and
Renaissance.

Sunday, January 3

11am—2pm Family Activity:
“Adinkra” with Dawn Black-
man.

1pm World Music presents
Jamaican stories and music with
Keith Eric.

Saturday, January 9
10am-1pm Weaving Demon-
stration by the North Shore
Weaver's Guild.

11 & 11:30am Stories Around
the World

11am Wintertime: Chicago and
Alaska slide program.

1pm World Music presents the
Latin sounds of Freddy
Concepcién.

24pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs
activity

Thursday, January 14
10am—1pm Weaving Demon-
stration by the North Shore
Weaver's Guild.

Saturday, January 16
9am—5pm Two Undiscovered
Aborigines Visit Chicago A mul-
tilingual, interactive perfor-
mance by Guillermo Gémez
Pefia and Coco Fusco. Mexican
Fine Arts Museum, Randolph
Street Gallery, and Field Muse-
um of Natural History present
this performance as part of the
“Year of the White Bear” pro-
ject. The performance looks at
how the “discovery of America”
has been represented through-
out recent history.

10am—1pm Weaving Demon-
stration by the North Shore

_ Weaver's Guild.

11am Children’s Window on
the World: Animals of the
World slide program.

1:30pm Tibet Today & A Faith
In Exile slide program.

Sunday, January 17

9am—5pm Two Undiscovered
Aborigines Visit Chicago A per-
formance by Guillermo Gémez
Pea and Coco Fusco.

14pm Weaving Demonstra-
tion by the North Shore
Weaver's Guild.

Thursday, January 21
10am—1pm Weaving Demon-
stration by the North Shore
Weaver's Guild.

Saturday, January 23

11am Bone Wars! The Cope-
Marsh Feud These two 19th
century American paleontolo-
gists waged a three-year battle
over fossils that rocked the sci-
entific world. Learn how this
feud was started by an
Elasmosaurus skeleton and how
it continues to affect what you
read about dinosaurs today.

11 & 11:30am Stories Around
the World

14pm Weaving Demonstra-
tion by the North Shore
Weaver's Guild.

Sunday, January 24
1pm World Music presents
Maya Marimba.

Saturday, January 30

Field Museum Celebrate Diver-
sity: Chinese New Year
11am—3pm Make a Chinese
lantern, have a good luck “door
guard” made for your house,
find out who receives “Laisee,”
make a tangram animal, and
discover how a Chinese family
celebrates the New Year.

1 & 3pm Lion Dance and folk
dance performance; kung fu
demonstration.

Sunday, January 31

11am Highlight Tour

1pm Highlight Tour in German
1pm World Music presents
African American jazz, blues
and gospel music by Vandy
Harris.

3pm Highlight Tour in Italian

Raices del Andes, Feb. 20

Saturday, February 6

Field Museum Celebrates
Diversity: Black History Month
The Harlem Renaissance,
Chicago Style

Programs celebrate the cultural
renaissance of the 1920s and
‘1930s. From 1915 through the
early 1940s, there was a
tremendous migration of blacks
into New York’s Harlem from
the Caribbean and into Chicago
from the southern United States.
These diverse culture groups
came together in urban settings
and from this synergy emerged
the cultural renaissance that
produced many of modern
America’s most important poets,
novelists, and musicians.
Through performances, poetry
readings, displays, and historical
presentations you will be intro-
duced to some of the people
who shaped this dynamic peri-
od in Chicago's history

12 noon Sia Dasnce Company
performs “The Life & Times of
Langston Hughes.”

12:30pm “Go Tell It on the
Mountain” film.

2:30pm “Go Tell It on the
Mountain” film.

Wednesday, February 10

Field Museum Celebrates
Diversity: Harlem Renaissance
Chicago Style

10:30 & 11:30am Christopher
Smith Dance Company per-
forms “It Happened In Harlem”
10:30, 11, 11:30 & 12 The
Chocolate Chip Theater Compa-
ny presents “Prose and Poetry of
the Harlem Renaissance.”
Written preregistration required.
Call (312)922-9410, ext. 351 for
details.

Saturday, February 13

11 & 11:30am Stories from
Around the World

1:30pm Tibet Today & A Faith
in Exile slide program.

24pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs
activity.

Sunday, February 14

1pm World Music presents a
romantic performance of classi-
cal flamenco guitar by Emory
Callaway,

Wednesday, February 17

Field Museum Celebrates
Diversity: Harlem Renaissance
Chicago Style

10:30 & 11:30am Whitney
Young Concert Choir performs
“A Tribute to Duke Ellington.”
10:30, 11, 11:30 & 12 The
Chocolate Chip Theater Compa-
‘ny presents “Prose and Poetry of
_the Harlem Renaissance.”

_ Written preregistration required.

Please call (312)922-9410, ext.
351 for details.

Saturday, February 20
1pm World Music presents the
music of Bolivia and the Andes
by Raices Del Andes.

Sunday, February 21

11am Highlight Tour

1pm Highlight Tour in German
3pm Highlight Tour in French

Wednesday, February 24

Field Museum Celebrates
Diversity: Harlem Renaissance
Chicago Style

10:30 & 11:30am Sia Dance
Company performs “The Life &
Times of Langston Hughes.”
10:30, 11, 11:30 & 12 The
Chocolate Chip Theater Compa-
ny presents “Prose and Poetry of
the Harlem Renaissance.”
Written preregistration required.
Call (312) 922-9410, ext. 351
for details.

Saturday, February 27

11 & 11:30am Stories from
Around the World

1pm World Music presents orig-
inal compositions on the harp
and balaphone by Lite Henry
Huff.

2—4pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs
activity.

Webber Resource Center
Native Cultures of the
Americas

Books, videotapes, activity
boxes, tribal newspapers and
resources for educators about
native peoples of the Americas
are available.

Daily 10am—4:30pm

Harris Educational Loan Center
Chicago Area educators may
borrow activity boxes and small.
dioramas for use in the class-
room. For more information
call: (312) 322-8853.

Harris Open House Hours:
Tuesdays 2:30-7pm

Thursdays 2:30-5pm

Saturdays 9am—5pm

Place For Wonder

A special room of touchable
objects where you can discover
daily life in Mexico, in addition
to an array of fossils, shells,
rocks and plants. Weekdays:
12:30-4:30pm

Weekends: 10am—4:30

Pawnee Earth Lodge

Walk into a traditional home of
the Pawnee Indians of the Great
Plains and learn about their
daily life during the mid-19th
century.

Weekdays: 1pm program
Saturdays: 10am—4:30pm;

Free ticketed programs at 11,
PARR Say.

Sundays: 10am—4:30pm

Rice Wildlife Research Station
Videotapes, computer programs,
educator resources, books and
activity boxes about the Animal
Kingdom are available.

Daily 9am—5pm

CHINESE WOOD-BLOCK PRINTS

By Dodie Baumgarten

hen the Chinese New Year is

rung in on January 23, mil-

lions of Chinese will once

again hang colorful prints

called nianhua — literally,
New Year’s art — designed to bring good
fortune. For hundreds of years, nianhua have
been an important part of the celebration of
the fifteen-day Spring Festival.

On either side of the door of a Chinese
peasant’s home, one might find ferocious-
looking door guards to frighten off evil spir-
its. Inside hang boldly colored wood-block

prints of gods who can favor the household
with longevity, prosperity, good fortune, fertili-
ty and many sons, and even high marks on
examinations. A pantheon of hundreds of gods
and their corresponding legends, drawn from
Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian beliefs, pre-
sented wood-block artists with a variety of sub-
jects, and allowed the creation of nianhua to
become one of the major folk arts of China.

The earliest known Chinese block illustra-
tions were those pressed into pads of clay
which were affixed to official documents.
These came into use
sometime near the
beginning of the Han
Dynasty (206 B.C-220
A.D.). It was also dur-
ing the Han that the
Chinese invented paper.
The practices of stamp-
ing paper with seals
inked on pigmented
pads, and making rubbings of carved stones,
developed soon after.

Prints from the sixth century A.D., pre-
served at Dunhuang in the northern province of
Gansu, present the earliest evidence of wood-
block printing. The technique became quite
popular during the Tang Dynasty (618-907
A.D.) but it was not until the Song Dynasty
(960-1279 A.D.), when color printing and
movable type were invented, that wood block
prints became available to all. For perspective,
we may note that Johannes Gutenberg did not
begin printing until the mid-fifteenth century,
four hundred years after the Chinese.

While the main printing centers were in

GIFT OF ASIAN ART OBJECTS

ield Museum has received a gift of

Chinese and Vietnamese lacquerware

and art objects from Dr.and Mrs.

Hyman Kaplan. The Kaplans have
recently been named Museum
Benefactors.

The donated items were
collected by the Kaplans with
the help of a friend whose Lon-
don-based antique dealership is
also patronized by the Queen.
They include several finely
carved cinnabar lacquerware pieces
from the 17th through the 19th centuries, three
wooden votive figurines, two carved wall
plaques, ceramic vases, and an Imperial Yellow
Peking glass bowl. One piece, thought to be
Vietnamese, is an unusual box, covered with
abalone shell designs set into lacquer, depicting
fishing scenes and landscapes.

The Kaplans’ donation honors the memory
of Dr. Joseph Leoni, a neurologist and medical
researcher who was a friend and colleague of
the Kaplans’ son since their student days
at the Chicago Medical School. He
traveled extensively, and during
a trip to China gave a lecture to
Chinese schoolchildren about
medical education in America.

Mrs. Kaplan’s interest in
Asian art was sparked by visits
to the home of a childhood
friend whose mother had spent
several years in China.

Bennet Bronson, chairman of the Anthro-
pology Department and curator of Asian
archaeology and ethnography, said the objects
“are surprisingly fine pieces to have been in a
private collection. They show that with a good

eye, patience, knowledge, and a little bit of
money to spend, private collectors can still
acquire museum-quality items.”

The cinnabar objects fill an important gap
in the Museum’s lacquerware col-

lection, which contains quite a
few examples of Japanese and
early Chinese lacquer work, but
not many created during the time of
China’s last dynasty. The fine carv-
ing, detailing, and finishing dis-
played by these Qing Dynasty
objects are characteristic of 18th and
19th century craftsmanship; standards for lac-
quer work have since declined, Bronson
said..

“These objects are
important both as art and as
three-dimensional documents
of Chinese technology and cul-
ture,” he added. The use of the lac-
quer, made from the sap of a tree
closely related to poison ivy, represent-

ed a technological breakthrough; the sap, a
natural polymer, colored by cinnabar
(mercuric sulfide), is unusually resis-
tant to solvents. Consequently,

cinnabar lacquer items became

one of China’s most successful

exports, and are often found in
archeological excavations,
having outlasted other con-
temporary artifacts.

An earthenware teapot, coy-
ered in carved cinnabar, is a particularly
notable addition to the Museum’s collection. It
is similar to other teapots owned by the Muse-
um, fashioned in the early 19th century in the
city of Yixing, in eastern China, but is the first

pr

Yangliuging in Hebei Province
in the north and Taohuawu in
Jiangsu Province in the south-
east, every province had its own
printing center. Although styles
varied, the technique for printing
nianhua was basically the same
everywhere. The artist would
sketch the design on thin paper
that was then pasted onto a
wood block. The pattern was
transferred to the block by carv-

=] ing through
the paper to
the wood,
after which the paper was
sanded off. Some prints
consisted of a simple red or
black outline, involving
only one block, on a coarse
buff paper. Others were
more elaborate polychrome
prints created by the application of a separate
wood block for each color. Occasionally, sten-
cilling or hand coloring was added after com-
pletion.

Very few older examples of nianhua sur-
vive, because they were torn down to make
room for the next year’s batch. It was only in
the twentieth century that collectors began to
purchase the prints for preservation and dis-
play; consequently, most extant examples of
this whimsical and vital art are relatively new.

Dodie Baumgarten is an associate in the
Department of Anthropology.

to feature
cinnabar
lacquer
decoration.
The wood-
en votive
figurines
also add a new dimension to the collection;
although the Museum owns a large array of
stone and metal religious statuary, these gen-
uine wooden folk art pieces, created for wor-
ship rather than sale, are unusual.

The Kaplans’ gift will go on display in
the North Lounge in early February, and will
run through the end of March. This small
exhibit will inaugurate the

North Lounge as a space for
the year-round exhibition of
new gifts to the collections.

~ Diane Alexander White / A111938

Above, Liu Hai, a
god of wealth,
clutching a “coin
dragon”; his right
foot is raised above a
three-legged toad
holding a large coin.
The Chinese charac-
ters, Lao Jiti, are the
name of the shop
where the print was
made, Center, Liu
Hai shown as a fat
healthy baby astride
his magic toad. At
left, another god, in
the guise of a high
aristocrat, and his
minions promise
increased wealth and
happiness.

Diane Alexander White / A111940

Above, 18th-century
cinnabar lacquerware
figurines flank a 19th-
century Imperial yel-
low glass bowl.
Below, round box
with abalone shell
inlaid on lacquer,
probably Vietnamese.
Left, three pieces of
19th-century cinnabar
lacquerware. The
bowl, upper left, is
lacquer on enamelled
copper; the teapot is
lacquer on Yixing
earthenware.

Diane Alexander White / A111937

9 January/February 1993

WORKS IN PROGRESS
THREE NEW EXHIBIT

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Museum staff and contractors are racing to complete three more new exhibits on a tight timetable
through the Museum’s centennial year 1993-94. With the opening of “Life Over Time” in 1994, more
than 70 percent of the Museum’s exhibit space will have been renovated in a ten-year period.

On this page, “Life Over Time” takes shape on the second floor. The subject is grand — geological
processes and the evolution of life on Earth — and so are the specimens, like the mammoth skeleton
(viewed from below the tusks). The exhibit will include a re-mounting of the Museum’s dinosaur
specimens, taking into account current knowledge of the animals; the carboniferous forest display;
and a new unit on human evolution. The “Prehistoric Man” dioramas, so familiar to generations of
Museum visitors, were seriously outdated and have been dismantled.

Opposite, top, Ruatepupuke II, the Maori meeting house, is being refurbished and moved from the
ground floor, where it has been in storage for decades, to the second floor, where it will again be
open to the public as a treasure of Maori culture and a resource center for the study of Asia and the
Pacific. The ridgepole of the house could not be maneuvered up the stairs beyond the first floor, so it
was hoist on a skyjacker from Stanley Field Hall. Watching anxiously are Carolyn Blackmon, center,
exhibit developer, and Arapata Hakiwai, right, co-curator of Ruatepupuke. The exhibit opens in March.

Opposite, below, “Africa” will be unique in the world: Combining the Museum’s incomparable col-
lections of both biological specimens and cultural artifacts, it will take Museum visitors on a grand
tour of the continent, from modern cities to remote forests and grasslands, and will include material
on the African diaspora in the Americas. The exhibit opens in November and will be the subject of a
Public Broadcasting Service documentary.

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The Galapagos Islands
February 5-16, 1993

Follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin's explorations of the diverse
and unique creatures of these spectacular, unspoiled islands.

Enjoy the beauty of this natural paradise as you travel
between islands on the first-class m.v. Santa Cruz. Climb
the volcanic summits of Cerro Egret, tour the Darwin
Research Station, and observe the unusual fish, tropical
birds, boobies, iguanas, tortoises, seals, and succulents
of the archipelago during daily shore excursions.

A Naturalist Quest

This exciting 11-day excursion offers incredible
opportunities for the naturalist in everyone.
Participants will be able to observe rare five-foot
iguanas, Howler Monkeys, the huge Jabiru storks, and
hundreds of species of birds and fish in their natural
settings while traveling to such picturesque locations as
Tikal National Park, which encompasses thousands of
ruins, many uninvestigated, and the largest barrier reef
in the Western Hemisphere, where the group will
snorkel.

The tour will be accompanied by Dr. David E. Willard,
collections manager of the Division of Birds. Highlights
of the trip include a full-day excursion to a colorful
Indian fair in Quito, Ecuador; an optional visit to the
fabulous Archaeological Museum, and a cruise around
Tower island, one of the most undisturbed natural
habitats, with virtually millions of sea and land birds
resident to its shores. We invite you to share this
extraordinary 8-day expedition with us; priced between
$4,105 and $4,830 per person including air fare from
Chicago. Call now, (312) 322-8862 for further
information, or to reserve a space on board. Join us for this Caribbean adventure, co-sponsored by
the Shedd Aquarium! $2,448 all-inclusive from Chicago.